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August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Breakfast up on the terrace was going wonderfully. The cute little birdies were out with the sun, the view was spectacular and the fried eggs were just what I needed. This was until one of the cute little birdies deposited something on my head. My »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For starters one cannot predict the weather here. Yesterday and last night was cold, like cold in my jumper cold. The converse came out of the bag for dinner and everything. So we were prepared for the worst today but after a quick breakie stop »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10am - Dash to Mont Blanc (finally opened) to purchase bag. I described it to the shop assistant and his response was... > "That’s a man’s bag." My eyes narrowed. It's a business bag for a 13 inch laptop. »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Embracing the true Milano Sunday meant that we must be as lazy as all the shopkeepers that don't open there stores today. And so nothing happened today before 11am and even then nothing was high intensity about this day, well except for the »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We’ve been on some pretty hairy roads on this trip, it’s just none of them lasted for 20 odd kilometres. Welcome to Lake Como. Our destination was Bellagio, a small town at the middle point of Lake Como and to put some perspective »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What’s the first thing anyone should do in Milano given the opportunity? Answer: Shopping Four Seasons Milano is dangerously placed for those wanting to watch their wallets; smack bang in the middle of the block of Milano shopping where every designer worth mentioning exists. »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh I did not want to wake up this morning but thankfully I had packed some of my bag the day before so it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. Over breakfast our favourite american family was there, the father talking »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the Accademia completed there was one Museo still left to see; the Uffizi. So after Elisa's insistence that my parents head out for dinner tonight to try the Florentien Steak (I think that is how they spell it) we were in a »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still stuffed from last night’s dinner I declined breakfast this morning, asking Dad to swipe an apple from the fruit bowl downstairs on his way back up (there is fruit in our room just not apples). Now it was time to visit a ten »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who'd have thought there was an actual limit to how much cheese I can eat in a day? Every meal from breakfast to dinner. I might have finally found my cheesy limit. Today was the day of too much food, after eating our »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was crazy to think that I hadn’t gone swimming in the Mediterranean, I mean it was across the road from the Hotel. It was right there! Mum and I decided that after breakfast we would fit in a quick beach swim before packing »
